Rent Waterfront (1950)
3.3 of 5 from 49 ratings
1h 17min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- This outstanding drama traces the turbulent life of a seaman brutalised by a life of hard work and hard drinking, and the challenges facing the three children he abandons as they struggle to make their way in Depression-era Liverpool. When ship's fireman Peter McCabe (Robert Newton) walks out on his long-suffering wife (Kathleen Harrison), he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake...
- Actors:
- Robert Newton, Kathleen Harrison, Avis Scott, Susan Shaw, Robin Netscher, Richard Burton, Kenneth Griffith, Olive Sloane, James Hayter, Charles Victor, Michael Brennan, Allan Jeayes, Hattie Jacques, Kathleen Boutall, John Boxer, Tony Britton, Cyril Chamberlain, Richard Coke, Basil Cunard, Angela Day
- Directors:
- Michael Anderson
- Producers:
- Paul Soskin
- Voiced By:
- Ben Williams, Elsie Wagstaff, Edna Morris
- Writers:
- John Brophy, Paul Soskin
- Aka:
- Waterfront Women
- Studio:
- Network
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 02/03/2015
- Run Time:
- 80 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Image Gallery
- Original Pressbook PDF
